1172 | 414 | Improving ruralities: from nun’s convent to a postindustrial cultural place-rooted geographical map. | Cerarols, Rosa; Luna, Antoni
If we understand the crisis as an opportunity, we can conceive of the ruins as a possibility to think differently and conceive it as a possibility to reverse the obsolescence of the capitalist system to build new geographical worldviews that disarticulate relationships between center-periphery, rural-urban and local-global in the framework of post-industrial societies. As an example of an alternative cultural practice that has generated a new discourse based on rootedness in the territory and geocreativity, we analyze the dynamics created from a recovered 19th century industrial colony abandoned in 1992
. The Konvent project in Cal Rosal on the Llobregat riverbed (Berguedà), based on the local resilience and through cultural practice, reverses the traditional scale roles by building a new territoriality that provides an alternative vision of development in “peripheral zones” that overturn the map of cultural creation and rurality narratives outside the current pejorative stereotype. From a geohumanistic perspective, the social cohesion and networks established in Catalan-speaking territories is reviewed at first, and also the parallel scenarios of other realities based on local development projects focused on art and culture, articulates a new territorial discourse that traces a contemporary discourse in the face of contemporary emergencies. The crisis, like resilience, is not new, but it must be interpreted as a key to change in order to contribute to a more inclusive geography that goes beyond the map and the established cultural stereotypes._x000D_
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Cerarols, Rosa; Luna, Antoni
UPF, Barcelona
ID Abstract: 414